It did not take long for North Korea to respond to the new economic sanctions announced by the Obama administration on Friday. Pyongyang said that the U.S. showed ongoing hostility, which would only strengthen North Korea’s resolve.
Back on Friday, the White House announced that it would impose even more sanctions against the isolated communist state in response to the hacking of Sony Pictures, which began in late November.
A strongly-worded statement from the North Korean foreign ministry was released by the state-run KCNA news agency on Saturday, reports Reuters, in response to Obama’s actrions.
“The policy persistently pursued by the U.S. to stifle the DPRK, groundlessly stirring up bad blood towards it, would only harden its will and resolution to defend the sovereignty of the country,” the statement read.
The statement continues, “The persistent and unilateral action taken by the White House to slap 'sanctions' against the DPRK patently proves that it is still not away from inveterate repugnancy and hostility toward the DPRK.”
A group of hackers called the Guardians of Peace allegedly leaked thousands of embarrassing Sony emails and eventually threatened the studio and theaters that planned to show The Interview. That comedy, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, is about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
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